Israel Diplomat Starts Tour of East European Countries

July 9, 1953

TEL AVIV (Jul. 8)

Shmuel Bentsur, head of the East European desk in the Israeli Foreign Office, left yesterday for an official tour of Israeli legations in East European countries. He will visit Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.

Michael Comay, recently named first Israeli Minister Plenipotentiary to Canada, left yesterday for Ottawa. He sailed aboard the S. S. Jerusalem which will dock at New York.